Quality guidelines

• 20 tips to help prevent medical errors (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality): A variety of guides and tips on obtaining quality health care and choosing a health care provider. (English, Spanish)
  www.ahrq.gov/consumer/20tips.htm
• 20 tips to help prevent medical errors in children (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality): A fact sheet for parents to use to help avoid medical errors with their children.
  www.ahcpr.gov/consumer/20tipkid.htm
• Adverse health events reporting: Minnesota (Minnesota Department of Health): Minnesota law requires that hospitals disclose when any of 27 medical errors occur. This site includes the 27 types of incidents that are tracked and publicly reported including wrong-site surgery; retention of a foreign object in a patient after surgery; and death or serious disability associated with medication error.
  www.health.state.mn.us/patientsafety/
• Quick checks for quality (Agency for Health Care Policy and Research): Checklists to use when seeking a doctor, hospital, health plan, treatment or long-term care. 
  www.ahcpr.gov/consumer/quick.htm